Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Plataiai |
|---|---|
| Year | 387 BC - 372 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | BCD Boiotia#240 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΠΛΑ |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Plataea's independent coinage was short-lived by necessity. The city had been razed by Thebes in 427 BC and its citizens expelled; it was only after the King's Peace of 387 BC that Plataea was formally re-established, with Spartan backing, and granted the conditions under which local coinage became possible again. The window closed brutally in 372 BC when Thebes destroyed the city a second time, this time more thoroughly.
The BCD Boiotia series documented these Plataian issues as genuinely scarce survivors of a mint active for no more than fifteen years between two catastrophes.